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Lexicon :: Strong's H3157 - yizrᵊʿe'l

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יִזְרְעֶאל
Transliteration
yizrᵊʿe'l
Pronunciation
yiz-reh-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִזְרְעֵאל Yizrᵉʻêʼl, yiz-reh-ale'; from H2232 and H410; God will sow; Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites:—Jezreel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's H3157 in the following manner: Jezreel (36x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's H3157 in the following manner: Jezreel (36x).

  1. Jezreel = "God sows"

    proper masculine noun

    1. a descendant of the father or founder of Etam of Judah

    2. first son of Hosea the prophet

      proper locative noun

    3. a city in the Nekeb of Judah

    4. a city in Issachar on the northwest spur of Mount Gilboa

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִזְרְעֵאל Yizrᵉʻêʼl, yiz-reh-ale'; from H2232 and H410; God will sow; Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites:—Jezreel.
STRONGS H3157: Abbreviations
† יִזְרְעֶאל
1. proper name, of a location (God soweth; Sabean אלדֿרא MordtZMG 1879, 489; see LagBN 131) — י׳ Joshua 15:56; 2 Samuel 2:9 +; יִזְרְעֶ֑אל 1 Samuel 25:43; Joshua 17:16 +; יִזְרְעֶ֫אלָה Joshua 19:18 + 6 times:
a. city in the Negeb of Judah Joshua 15:56; 1 Samuel 25:43 (home of Ahinoam, one of David's wives), site unknown; compare proper name, masculine 1 Chronicles 4:3.
b. city in Issachar Joshua 19:18 on northwest spur of Mt. Gilboa 2 Samuel 4:4 (compare 1 Samuel 31:1, 8) 1 Kings 4:12 (compare 1 Samuel 31:10, 12), modern Zer`în (RobBR ii. 318 ff. BdPal 244), close to scene of great battle with Philistines 1 Samuel 29:1 (בְּעַיִן אשׁר בְיִז׳, compare RobBR ii. 323) 1 Samuel 29:11; subject to Ishbosheth 2 Samuel 2:9 (yet see below), residence of Ahab and Jehoram of Israel 1 Kings 18:45, 46; 1 Kings 21:1 (Naboth) 2 Kings 8:29 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 22:6 (twice in verse), 2 Kings 9:15 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 9:16, 17, 30; 2 Kings 10:11 compare דְּמֵי יִז׳ Hosea 1:4, and symbolical name of Hosea's son Hosea 1:4 (compare Che); — in 2 Kings 10:1 for שָׂרֵי יִז׳ read שָׂרֵי שֹׁמְרוֺן so Greek Version of the LXX. Used by Hosea as representing Israel, with play on etymology, Hosea 2:24 (compare וּזְרַעְתִּיהָ לִּי בָּאָרֶץ Hosea 2:25), compare also גָּדוֺל יוֺם יִז׳ Hosea 1:2. Territory immediately about the city is חֵלֶק יִז׳ 2 Kings 9:10, 36, 37; compare חֵל יִז׳ 1 Kings 21:23 (read probably חלק, see Th Klo after Syriac Version Vulgate; the adjacent plain is עֵמֶק יִז׳ (compare Di Joshua 17:16 BdPal 229) Joshua 17:16; Judges 6:33; Hosea 1:5 (perhaps also = יִז׳ 2 Samuel 2:9 above, || Gilead, Ephraim, Benjamin, etc.)
2. proper name, masculine
a. Hosea's son Hosea 1:4, compare 1b above.
b. Judahite name 1 Chronicles 4:3, compare 1a above.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

15:56; 15:56; 17:16; 17:16; 17:16; 19:18; 19:18

Judges

6:33

1 Samuel

25:43; 25:43; 29:1; 29:11; 31:1; 31:8; 31:10; 31:12

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:9; 4:4

1 Kings

4:12; 18:45; 18:46; 21:1; 21:23

2 Kings

8:29; 9:10; 9:15; 9:16; 9:17; 9:30; 9:36; 9:37; 10:1; 10:11

1 Chronicles

4:3; 4:3

2 Chronicles

22:6

Hosea

1:2; 1:4; 1:4; 1:4; 1:5

H3157

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3157 matches the Hebrew יִזְרְעֶאל (yizrᵊʿe'l),
which occurs 36 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:56

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:56 - Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The people of Joseph replied, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:18 - Their territory included: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 - Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:43 - David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:1 - The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:11 - So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:9 - He made him king over Gilead, Ashuri and Jezreel, and also over Ephraim, Benjamin and all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:4 - (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:12 - Baana son of Ahilud—in Taanach and Megiddo, and in all of Beth Shan next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah across to Jokmeam;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:45 - Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:46 - The power of the LORD came on Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1 - Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “And also concerning Jezebel the LORD says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of[fn] Jezreel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - so King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and ran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram[fn] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:16 - Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.” “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 - Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[fn] to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab’s children. He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the royal princes, seventy of them, were with the leading men of the city, who were rearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter arrived, these men took the princes and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:3 - These were the sons[fn] of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma and Idbash. Their sister was named Hazzelelponi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah[fn] son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab because he had been wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:5 - In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 - The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:22 - and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.[fn]
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